A Firm Step to Deepening School-Enterprise Cooperation and Jointly Promote the Transformation of Innovation Achievements: “SYSU-IFLYTEK Artificial Intelligence and Governance Joint Innovation Laboratory” is Launched
“SYSU-IFLYTEK Artificial Intelligence and Governance Joint Innovation Laboratory” launching ceremony and a kick-off meeting were officially held at Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) on May 23, 2022. Vice President of SYSU Lan Ping, Deputy Director of Guangdong Provincial Government Service Data Management Bureau Wei Wentao, and Senior Vice President of IFLYTEK Du Lan presented and gave speeches. Twenty leaders and experts from relevant departments of Guangdong Provincial Government Service Data Management Bureau, scientific institutions, and enterprises were also invited. The ceremony was hosted by the Vice Principal of the School of Politics and Public Affairs Management Ye Lin. President of School of Politics and Public Affairs Management Tan Ankui, Vice President of IFLYTEK Xie Fei, Deputy Director of Horizontal Development Division of IFLYTEK Li Jie, and heads of other relevant departments also attended the ceremony.
The cooperation via the opportunity of building a joint laboratory gives full play to the multi-discipline system advantages of SYSU and industrial advantages of IFLYTEK and promotes industry-university-institution collaborative education. In adherence to the national strategy, the laboratory makes full use of government data resources in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and works in close conjunction with government service innovation and government governance reform in Guangdong, to boost the construction of digital government and enhance the overall governance capacity of the government. Meanwhile, the laboratory is devoted to cultivating comprehensive talents with the knowledge of both artificial intelligence and digital governance and pushes Guangdong’s digital government governance capacity to a new level.
Vice Principal Lan Ping, Dean Tan Ankui, Senior Vice President Du Lan, and Vice President Xie Fei unveiled the joint laboratory together at the kick-off meeting.
